Donald Miller Quotes
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.Donald Miller
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
Victoria Pendleton -
It's healthy to have interests besides books.
Patrick deWitt -
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein -
I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
Brown Campbell -
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
Karin Slaughter -
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
Jack Levine -
I've always been extremely physically active.
Danai Gurira -
Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
Ed Royce -
The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
Zana Marjanovic -
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
Barry Silbert -
I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Aaron Levie
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
Sabrina Carpenter -
When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
E. Y. Harburg -
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
Aaron Neville -
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Carlo Collodi -
I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of the Oswald Chambers book, 'My Utmost for His Highest.'
Jerry Falwell -
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
Bess Streeter Aldrich -
Underlying the diversified and localized gross layers of ordinary consciousness there is a unified, nonlocalized, and subtle layer: “pure consciousness.”
Ervin Laszlo -
This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
Oscar Robertson -
We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.
Brian Lumley -
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
Donald Miller